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Feb 2024
39m 9s

Shaylanna Brown // 385

Dark West Productions
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In March of 2020, a 23-year-old Indigenous woman went missing while taking a walk outside her Haida Gwaii, BC home. Despite the fact that she had confided in loved ones about having a stalker, her case received very little attention due to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Do what really happened to her? And does someone in her community hold the key? This is the story of Shaylanna Brown.


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